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Topic 1 - Introduction
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What is a robot?
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.. image:: ../img/robots.png


.. admonition:: A robot is the sum of:
    :class: tip

    * Sensors
    * Actuators
    * Computing
    * Communication
    * Ability to move
    * Intelligence (AI)


**The objective is to make robots autonomous!**

How?
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.. image:: ../img/robot.png

.. admonition:: We need a lot of things!
    :class: important

    * Localization
    * Mapping
    * Robot Kinematics
    * Task allocation
    * Planning

We will not focus too much on the robot kinematics, as it is more ingeniering than computer science.

Building a robot is very complicated but awesome!
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Robot Autonomy Architecture
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As you can see you need a lot of things to make a robot autonomous.

It is impossible to cover everything in one course, but we will try to introduce most of it and go deeper for specific topics.